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Originally Posted by vandelay
...The bigger oddballs are the Museum of Art and Design and the Trump tower. Both should be demolished and redeveloped.
The Trump tower is right next to the most valuable real estate in NYC, directly on CPW, on a flatiron lot with iconic placement on 8th avenue and Broadway, and it's a tacky 70's brass box with a hood ornament from Queens.
It should be on par with 15CPW and the rest of the Art Deco masterpieces.
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Trump Tower (on Columbus Circle) was originally the Gulf and Western Building and it had a different facade.
Philip Johnson designed the renovation. The entire tower was stripped and rebuilt basically.
I think it's a perfectly fine international modernist building. There are far, far worse tall buildings in the city.
I don't think it's going anywhere or being changed anytime soon.